A juvenile court here on Wednesday sentenced a 20-year-old to six-months stay in a juvenile home, in the sensational Mercedes Benz car crash in which four persons were killed in Kilpauk in December 2007.
The boy was just 16 years old when the mishap took place.
“The court on Wednesday awarded the six months imprisonment and Rs14,500 as fine to the accused who was driving the luxury car when the accident happened,” police sources said.
The boy can now go to a higher court on appeal, sources said.
In 2007, the speeding Mercedes Benz collided with a two-wheeler on New Avadi Road and crashed into a platform where construction workers were sleeping.
Four workers died and more than 10 were injured, an official recalled on Wednesday.
The boy had gone into hiding after the accident while his father denied that his son was involved, claiming that the driver was behind the wheel. Initially the driver surrendered, claiming to be responsible for the incident.
The boy was later forced to surrender before the juvenile court because of media attention and pressure from police personnel, who insisted that they had clinching evidence that the boy was driving the car.
He was granted bail and allowed to continue his studies in Singapore after his surrender at the juvenile court.
At that time, the incident was compared to the 1999 Delhi BMW car accident in which the Sanjeev Nanda, grandson of former naval chief S.M. Nanda, had run over six persons while speeding in his BMW car in Lodhi Colony, New Delhi.